stencil

Definitions

WordNet 3.6

vstencilmark or print with a stencil

nstencila sheet of material (metal, plastic, cardboard, waxed paper, silk, etc.) that has been perforated with a pattern (printing or a design); ink or paint can pass through the perforations to create the printed pattern on the surface below

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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

nStencilA thin plate of metal, leather, or other material, used in painting, marking, etc. The pattern is cut out of the plate, which is then laid flat on the surface to be marked, and the color brushed over it. Called also stencil plate.

v. tStencilTo mark, paint, or color in figures with stencils; to form or print by means of a stencil.

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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

stencilTo mark out or paint by means of a stencil.

nstencilA thin plate or sheet of any substance in which a figure, letter, or pattern is formed by cutting through the plate. If the plate thus cut is placed upon a surface and rubbed with color or ink, the pattern or figure will be marked on the underlying substance. For many purposes, the letters, etc., are cut through completely; for transferring a pattern, as in embroidery, the lines of the pattern are often indicated by small holes. In wall-decoration, etc., both these plans are employed. Different stencils are often used in the same design, each for a different color.

nstencilThe coloring matter used in marking with a stencil-plate.

nstencilIn ceramics, a preparation laid upon the biscuit to keep the oil used in transfer-printing or enameling from adhering to the surface; hence, the pattern traced by this preparation, reserving a panel or medallion of the unaltered color of the biscuit.

nstencilA door-post; a stanchion.

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Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary

nStencilsten′sil a plate of metal, &c., with a pattern cut out, which is impressed upon a surface by drawing a brush with colour over it

v.tStencilto print or paint by means of a stencil:—pr.p. sten′cilling; pa.t. and pa.p. sten′cilled

The shades of night were falling fast,
As through an Eastern village passed
A youth who bore, through dust and heat,
A stencil-plate, that read complete--"SAPOLIO."

"Excelsior" by Francis Bret Harte

His brow was sad, his mouth was dry;
It was the first day of July,
And where, all parched and scorched it hung,
These words was stenciled on his tongue:
"No beer, no work."

"No Beer, No Work" by Ellis Parker Butler

A wooden cross surveys my bones,
With on it stenciled: Peter Jones.
And round it are five hundred more;
(A proper job did old man War!)
So young they were, so fresh, so fit,
So hopeful - that's the hell of it.

"Two Graves" by Robert W Service

In news:

I purchased sizes 2 and 6 and found them useful with all sizes and shapes of stencils .

In science:

As for the plot given below, we assume that a sphere is lit up by a stencil beam entering the sphere at the center of the image.

Surface Curvature Effects on Reflectance from Translucent Materials

Before each single level update from time tℓ to time tℓ + ∆tℓ , a ring of “ghost” cells suﬃciently large to complete the stencils required to update valid-region data on each gridpatch is ﬁlled in.

Constrained-Transport Magnetohydrodynamics with Adaptive-Mesh-Refinement in CHARM

In the case of Bifrost , computing the derivatives or interpolating the variables uses a stencil of 6 grid points.

The stellar atmosphere simulation code Bifrost

The two possible solutions are to communicate the needed data to neighboring nodes every time it is needed, and the other is to supply each node with a number of “ghost cells” around its allocated subdomain so that the whole stencil used in for instance a derivative operator is present at the node that needs it.

The stellar atmosphere simulation code Bifrost

Here 1 ≤ k ≤ ne is a local index, counting the elements in the stencil, and j = j (k) is the mapping from the local index k to the global indexation of the elements in QΩ .

Very High Order $\PNM$ Schemes on Unstructured Meshes for the Resistive Relativistic MHD Equations

Note that during the reconstruction step, the polynomials wh are continuously extended over the whole stencil Si .

Very High Order $\PNM$ Schemes on Unstructured Meshes for the Resistive Relativistic MHD Equations

The number of elements in the stencils are chosen in such a way that the number of equations in (35) is larger that the number of degrees of freedom in the space Wh .

Very High Order $\PNM$ Schemes on Unstructured Meshes for the Resistive Relativistic MHD Equations

L and K are consistent stencil discretizations of the continuum differential operators L and K (note that L and K may involve powers of ∆t in general).

On the Accuracy of Finite-Volume Schemes for Fluctuating Hydrodynamics

D and wS are the deterministic and stochastic stencil widths.

On the Accuracy of Finite-Volume Schemes for Fluctuating Hydrodynamics

In the RK3 method, the diffusive components of the ﬂuxes F D are calculated using classical face-centered second-order centered stencils to evaluate the are also generated at the faces of gradients of the ﬁelds at the cell faces.

On the Accuracy of Finite-Volume Schemes for Fluctuating Hydrodynamics

The stencil widths in Eq. (23) are wD = 6 (three stages with stencil width two each) and wS = 4, and there are Ns = 3 random numbers per cell per step (one per stage), with a general 3 × 3 covariance matrix CW .

On the Accuracy of Finite-Volume Schemes for Fluctuating Hydrodynamics

In higher dimensions it may be costly to compute ˆα over the whole domain, so a local Lax-Friedrichs method (where the maximum value of ˆα over the numerical stencil is used) can be used instead.

Numerical simulations of interfaces in relativistic hydrodynamics

We will apply the boundary condition to at least p + 1 “ghost” points extending from xI+1 to xI+p+1 , where p is the stencil size of the numerical method.

Numerical simulations of interfaces in relativistic hydrodynamics

Stencil computations consume a ma jor part of runtime in many scientiﬁc simulation codes.